Agent skill

Navan Reference Architecture

by jeremylongshore in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace

Design a Navan integration architecture with explicit trust, data, identity, and accounting boundaries.

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Navan Reference Architecture

skills CLI
$ npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill navan-reference-architecture -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace navan-reference-architecture --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/.curated/navan-reference-architecture .claude/skills/navan-reference-architecture && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
navan-reference-architecture
GitHub stars
2.8k
Token cost
~956 tokens
SKILL.md length
383 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
3,342
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Design a Navan integration architecture with explicit trust, data, identity, and accounting boundaries.

  • Works in 6 steps: Inventory Navan surfaces, owners, data… → Draw trust zones and every network,… → Define canonical identifiers, money,… → …
  • Building a multi-system travel
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Prerequisites, Current Contract and Authentication, plus 8 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Navan Reference Architecture is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Design a Navan integration architecture with explicit trust, data, identity, and accounting boundaries. Use when building a multi-system travel or expense flow. Trigger with "design Navan architecture", "Navan integration diagram", or "Navan data platform".

Its SKILL.md is about 960 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/official-docs.md`). Compatibility notes: Designed for Claude Code; live or external Navan actions require network access and explicit approval

It sits in Business, Finance & HR, covering Accounting and bookkeeping. The repository describes itself as: Model-agnostic agent-skills platform with a harness-free canonical layer, verified adapters, and the ccpi package manager. Explore at tonsofskills.com. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Building a multi-system travel
  • With design Navan architecture
  • Navan integration diagram
  • Navan data platform

Example prompts

  • “design Navan architecture”
  • “Navan integration diagram”
  • “Navan data platform”
  • “/navan-reference-architecture”

Requirements

  • Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code; live or external Navan actions require network access and explicit approval
  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Glob, Grep, Write, Edit

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Inventory Navan surfaces, owners, data classes, consumers, and side effects.
  2. Draw trust zones and every network, storage, AI, and human boundary.
  3. Define canonical identifiers, money, time, lifecycle, and lineage models.
  4. Add queues, checkpoints, deduplication, quarantine, and reconciliation.
  5. Specify redaction, retention, encryption, access, deletion, and incident controls.
  6. Document scaling, failure, deployment, rollback, and contract-upgrade paths.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cfae287. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Read
    • Glob
    • Grep
    • Write
    • Edit

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

  • Compatibility

    Designed for Claude Code; live or external Navan actions require network access and explicit approval

    From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Navan Reference Architecture loads about 956 tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.2k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 72 tokens; SKILL.md has 383 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~72
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~956
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~1.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace at commit cfae287, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 383 words, ~956 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/navan-reference-architecture/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
navan-reference-architecture
description
Design a Navan integration architecture with explicit trust, data, identity, and accounting boundaries. Use when building a multi-system travel or expense flow. Trigger with "design Navan architecture", "Navan integration diagram", or "Navan data platform".
allowed-tools
Read, Glob, Grep, Write, Edit
compatibility
Designed for Claude Code; live or external Navan actions require network access and explicit approval
argument-hint
<surfaces> <destinations> <risk-tier>
version
1.9.0
license
MIT
author
Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>
tags
saas, navan, architecture
model
inherit
effort
high

Navan Governed Integration Architecture

Overview

Design a Navan integration architecture with explicit trust, data, identity, and accounting boundaries. This workflow produces an auditable decision or artifact before any live action.

Prerequisites

  • Access to the selected tenant's current Navan Help Center and contracted integration documentation.
  • A named business owner and data owner for the travel or expense workflow.
  • A non-production evidence set with secrets and traveler data removed.

Current Contract

A durable design separates vendor access, intake, immutable staging, normalization, policy, publication, write-back, reconciliation, and audit. It supports the tenant's actual API, SFTP, SCIM, SSO, or direct-integration contracts without assuming one universal transport.

Authentication

Place secrets at the ingress boundary, bind each identity to one tenant and purpose, and keep administrative, ingestion, and write-back privileges separate.

Instructions

  1. Inventory Navan surfaces, owners, data classes, consumers, and side effects.
  2. Draw trust zones and every network, storage, AI, and human boundary.
  3. Define canonical identifiers, money, time, lifecycle, and lineage models.
  4. Add queues, checkpoints, deduplication, quarantine, and reconciliation.
  5. Specify redaction, retention, encryption, access, deletion, and incident controls.
  6. Document scaling, failure, deployment, rollback, and contract-upgrade paths.

Tool Discipline

Use Read, Glob, and Grep to inspect documentation, schemas, configuration, code, fixtures, and evidence. Use Write and Edit only for approved repository artifacts. Invocation alone does not authorize network access, credentials, traveler or expense data, bookings, payments, policy or identity changes, file transfers, deployments, or deletion.

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Approval Boundaries

New processors, sensitive destinations, cross-border flows, AI/MCP access, write-back, production identities, and retention changes require architecture and data-owner approval.

Error Handling

  • Do not couple acknowledgement to downstream success without durable receipt.
  • Avoid a shared credential across tenants or purposes.
  • No diagram is complete without failure and reconciliation paths.

Output

Return a component map, data-flow and trust boundaries, identity matrix, control owners, failure paths, and decision log. Identify assumptions, owners, expirations, and evidence gaps explicitly.

Examples

  • Separate booking intake from duty-of-care publication.
  • Isolate expense reconciliation from privileged ERP posting.

Validation

Walk success, duplicate, late correction, credential theft, vendor outage, destination outage, data request, and rollback. Record expected and observed results, including fail-closed behavior.

Resources

  • Current first-party evidence map — recheck dated sources and the selected tenant's in-account contract before relying on mutable endpoints, fields, entitlements, limits, or delivery behavior.
  • Record tenant observations as environment-specific evidence, never universal Navan guarantees.

© jeremylongshore, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in skills/.curated/navan-reference-architecture of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/official-docs.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287

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Questions about Navan Reference Architecture

What does Navan Reference Architecture do?

Design a Navan integration architecture with explicit trust, data, identity, and accounting boundaries. Navan Reference Architecture is an agent skill from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. Design a Navan integration architecture with explicit trust, data, identity, and accounting boundaries.

When should I use Navan Reference Architecture?

Navan Reference Architecture fits situations like: building a multi-system travel; with design Navan architecture; navan integration diagram; navan data platform.

How do I install Navan Reference Architecture in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill navan-reference-architecture -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.curated/navan-reference-architecture in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .claude/skills/navan-reference-architecture in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Navan Reference Architecture in Codex?

Run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill navan-reference-architecture -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/.curated/navan-reference-architecture in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace) into .agents/skills/navan-reference-architecture in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Navan Reference Architecture in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill navan-reference-architecture -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/navan-reference-architecture, .gemini/skills/navan-reference-architecture, .github/skills/navan-reference-architecture and .opencode/skills/navan-reference-architecture in your project.

What does Navan Reference Architecture need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Navan Reference Architecture is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Write, Edit. Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code; live or external Navan actions require network access and explicit approval.

Does Navan Reference Architecture access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Navan Reference Architecture safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Navan Reference Architecture use?

Navan Reference Architecture is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Navan Reference Architecture use?

About 956 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 288 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains Navan Reference Architecture?

jeremylongshore (a GitHub user) maintains it in jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace, which has 2,827 GitHub stars. The repository holds 3,342 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.